The 8 Types Of People You See In Every College Bar

Behind every great college is a great bar.

Forget about the lectures, the assignments, those awkward society meetings where you go to desperately try and find new friends in first year; some of your best times as a student will likely be spent in the student bar.

It doesn’t matter if you’re drinking, eating, or just looking to kill sometime in the middle of the day. This will be a safe haven for you to do what students do best – procrastinate and avoid responsibilities.

As the meeting point for a variety of different students in college life, you’ll more than likely recognise at least a few of these typical characters from your local.

THE REGULAR

9am on a Monday? 3pm on a Thursday? This guy even shows up at the weekends, or at least you assume he would if you happened to be there.

He/she is always the person you see there every time without fail. He might be an alcoholic, or maybe he just likes the atmosphere. Either way, you walk in the front door and he’s there.

Nobody really knows why either? Does he even have lectures to go to? Does he actually spend 12 hours a day here? They’re an enigma, but chances are you’ll like them all the same.

THE POOL PLAYER

Most of us are partial to the odd game of pool every now and again in the bar, but you’ll have no chance if your college bar has enough of these knocking about.

They go here with this one and only mission in mind. They will be there all day and feel no guilt or shame whatsoever about it.

You probably don’t even know them that well. They could be a modern-day saint for all you know, but that doesn’t stop you from cursing them under your breath every time you walk up and see a tower of €1 coins on the table.

One day, you’ll see that table empty, but you might be waiting a long time.

THE FIRST YEAR

Obviously, you’ll see a lot of first years in the bar, but they’re excitement at entering this new world can be spotted from a mile away.

“It’s 11am and we’re drinking pints” or “Ah sure, doesn’t matter if we’re a little drunk for our first lecture” are common phrases you’ll probably hear from the average first year in your bar.

You can’t blame them either. They’ve just entered a whole new world of freedom and opportunity. There are few greater moments in life than the realisation that you’re not in the airport, but you can still drink pints in the early afternoon if you so please.

Enjoy it, freshers. Mountains of assignments and the creeping dread of the real word are just around the corner.

THE CRAFT BEER W**KER

Craft beer is brilliant, let’s make that perfectly clear.

However, you’re really going to stick out like a sore thumb if you’re the one drinking a chocolate-infused-double IPA in a student bar of all places.

There’s always one though. Most student bars are now offering at least one craft option for the beer hipster among us, because it’d be a crime if they just drank cheap Fosters like the rest of us.

If you’re going to have a craft beer, that’s fine so long as you don’t be the one who also goes on about how your beverage is infinitely superior to ours.

It’s here when one enters ‘craft beer-w**ker’ territory. We advise you don’t cross this dangerous line.